Well...
Thank you very much, O2/Vodafone!
I thought there would be trouble... and there is! By shoving 4G800 on to my local mast (which isn't that far away from what I live - getting 80% strength on 4G800 and 67-78% on 3G2100), I'm now getting the occasional pixelation on my Freeview TV.
And this pixelation was happening on the main BBC channels, on a low frequency multiplex! (Ch27, so 522Mhz). I dread to think what Ch52 (722MHz) is like!
This was fine until the Vodafone mast in Higham Ferrers was 4G'ed and CTIL'ed.
This is why I'm happy that EE are using 1800 as their base layer - not 800! Looks like I'll need to get a filter installed!
One good thing: 3G performance seems to have increased as well. On Giffgaff (which has rock bottom priority on the o2 network), I got 3.40Mbps down and 2.47Mbps up on 3G - much better than the 0.5Mbps I got previously! And the 4G upload was looking to be around the 14-16Mbps area - though the download was still only around 3Mbps.
I think I may now use my Giffgaff SIM for heavy uploading, because EE are still 3G (so 2.5Mbps upload) and Virgin Media (Wifi) are heavy handed with their upload policies - very slow speeds that are made even slower after a set amount of upload.
Thank you very much, O2/Vodafone!
I thought there would be trouble... and there is! By shoving 4G800 on to my local mast (which isn't that far away from what I live - getting 80% strength on 4G800 and 67-78% on 3G2100), I'm now getting the occasional pixelation on my Freeview TV.
And this pixelation was happening on the main BBC channels, on a low frequency multiplex! (Ch27, so 522Mhz). I dread to think what Ch52 (722MHz) is like!
This was fine until the Vodafone mast in Higham Ferrers was 4G'ed and CTIL'ed.
This is why I'm happy that EE are using 1800 as their base layer - not 800! Looks like I'll need to get a filter installed!
One good thing: 3G performance seems to have increased as well. On Giffgaff (which has rock bottom priority on the o2 network), I got 3.40Mbps down and 2.47Mbps up on 3G - much better than the 0.5Mbps I got previously! And the 4G upload was looking to be around the 14-16Mbps area - though the download was still only around 3Mbps.
I think I may now use my Giffgaff SIM for heavy uploading, because EE are still 3G (so 2.5Mbps upload) and Virgin Media (Wifi) are heavy handed with their upload policies - very slow speeds that are made even slower after a set amount of upload.




